Arsenal Technical High School - Arsenal Cannon Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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The Graphic Arts department consists of three groups: the print shop, Com- mercial Art and Printing Design classes. In October, 1915, arrangements between the In- dianapolis Sehool Board and the United Typothetae and Franklin Clubs of the American School of Print- ing enabled Tech to install a thorough and practical printing course without cost to the pupils. Today, listed in the Graphic Arts department, it is a voca- tional eourse. The first-year classes learn the funda- mentals of printing, While the advanced pupils set up and print the Arsenal Cannon, the senior di- plomas, and other printed matter used by the school. Printing offers several opportunities for advance- ment to almost every type of person. Many of the pupils who have received their vocational ccrtiiicate oi' printing have been able to secure very profitable positions in the printing World. In the six classes in Commercial Art the pupils are prepared for commercial advertising and art. Another branch of this course is the Commercial Art Layout class which instructs the pupils in the princi- ples ot layout design, This class does the layout work for the Oamw-11, semester magazine. In Printing Design, a vocational course, the boys are trained to plan type panels and type designs, magazine covers, and advertisements. Cannon Artists and Printers , gg , e 2 I itil QE '55 ' -'O 1 ,as ' IA I r tl lllll I l , KT -i -af! 2 . ,H 45' xi -In the Print Shop 7 Q , , 4 My E 1 ,5 s. , f 1 W ' Y time-T5 P 4' -f , I-i W f ,l .f 5 YQQVEJ E W X ff Q X 53 Z The GraphicArts Department 9 THE ARSENAL CANNON 1

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V The Fine Arts Department 8 THE ARSENAL CANNON L V Advanced Drawing-Figure Composition The Fine Arts department, started twenty-one years ago, has grown up with Tech. It has about six hundred pupils, each in one of the drawing, stage-craft, make-up, costume design- ing, jewelry, modeling, theatrical costuming, or etch- ing and lithography classes. The various freehand drawing and advanced drawing courses have been all-time members. The stage-craft classes, started at a later date, did not reach their present form until the building of the Auditorium. Members of these classes learn the use of stage properties and take care of lighting and sound eifects for all dramatic presentations. The Make-Up and Theatrical Costume staffs, extra-curricular activities, made their advent three years ago. The Make-Up staff is taught the use and art of make-up. The Theatrical Costume staff is taught to design suitable costumes for the casts of the dramatic presentations. Students in jewelry classes are ably taught the principles of that vocation by actually making the articles used in that business. In modeling, pupils learn to model human iigures from clay and other modeling materials. The most recent addition to this group is the course in Etching and Lithography, started in 1932 when lithographic and etching presses were obtained. if - lf Mig Q gli 2. EW. ' 4 Egi ,lp?F,5 EE: i ff1 'a Ag! ,- I F ff ,N- X fd .lv---' X fn, -4 f f 7 't - f T Lyifgf, 4 A Printin an Etchin A Problem in Make-u j 'ff 4357 f y' '5 'g I g g P wr VT T f -- EE, ' 'tx ilk TE Ml S ji ENE? i 1, .1 ry 7, gan 4- I T ff' - I ,WW Sig 4 lisa -L af. f - at, ff' X P 5' W' 'gilt liiifsas :J . X A , 1 x xx Er w in' l li-Ali

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The Biological Sciences 10 THE ARSENAL CANNON The Science department, Z0010gY like Tech, began in a modest way. lts first class was one in botany, organized during the spring term of 1911. It recited in the old East Residence, now no longer on the campus. Now, in both the Main Building and in the New Shop Building the Science department has large laboratories for study and lecture rooms where it is possible to have demonstrations and ilius- trated talks. This department includes two sections: the physical and the biological sciences. The first zoology class was taught in the fall ot 1921. This science gives pupils a better idea of both animal and insect lite. They learn something of the technique of dissection and acquire a knowledge of the functions of the organs. This course is of great value to pupils who plan to specialize in medicine. Enrolled in the fourteen classes are four hundred twenty pupils. Five hundred three pupils are enrolled in the seventeen classes in the Botany department. Pu- pils study about the structure and functions of the different kinds of plants and learn to ree- ognize thein when seen in their natural environ- ment. ltlverything is done in a very systematic way. By means ot selt-made seed geriuiuators, pupils watch seeds grow from day to day. They make notebooks in which they have mounted their col- lections of leaves. ln display cabinets in the north C01'l'lLlOl', Nature Study Club Bvlany they have exhibits: nature al- manacs, leaf-books, diagrams of cell structure, various types of algae, cross sections of leaves, diagrams ol' seed struc- ture and ot seed germination, colored drawings of fruits and vegetables, and diagrams ot fertilization. In the spring ot 1919, the Nature Study Club was formed. its membership is open to all pupils interested in nature whether or not they take botany. Here kindred souls who in the love ot Nature hold communion with her visible forms enjoy interesting programs or take long hikes. Tech is most fortunate iu having on her campus an outdoor biology laboratory as well as a shrine for those who love Nature in all her forms-the Nature Preserve. Here Tech boys and girls learn to know at first hand the wealth of beauty provided by the native flowers off their state. This preserve consists of five acres. In this area the Botany department is trying to restore and preserve a large number of the species which constituted the original flora of the Indiana forest. Many of these species are now To date, transplantings have been quite rare. made f r o in seventeen counties in indiana and from seven other states. The gardenv has over two hundred species. Chemistry was not introduced until the first semester of 1921 when three classes were organ- ized to meet in the West Residence. These classes lacked both iaboratories and complete equipment.